Michael Griener
Michael Griener (born February 6, 1968 in Nuremberg ) is a German jazz drummer.
Live and act
Griener, who is also known as a freelance improviser and interpreter of contemporary music, came to Berlin in 1994 , where he worked with musicians such as Tal Farlow , Herb Ellis , Barry Guy , Axel Dörner , Mal Waldron , Paul Lovens , Zeena Parkins , Keith Tippett , Butch Morris , Ulrich Gumpert , Evan Parker , Aki Takase , Mats Gustafsson , Alexander von Schlippenbach , Joëlle Léandre , David Liebman , Conny Bauer , Johannes Bauer , Andrea Neumann , Chris Dahlgren , Frank Gratkowski , Phil Minton , Maria Răducanu and Tony Buck .
For a long time he worked on the Vario-projects of Günter Christmann (u. A. The CIM Festival The Hague in 1990, the Moers Festival in 1992, the Witten Festival of New Chamber Music in 1993, Interplay 2006). With the duo Kimmo Elomaa with the live electronics technician jayrope , he received the Berlin Senate Award in 2001. He also worked with dancers such as Anzu Furukawa and David Zambrano and with actors and writers. He was involved in a Paul Celan project by Oskar Ansull .
He currently plays u. a. with the Ulrich Gumpert Quartet, “Baby Bonk”, his trio “Themroc 3, TGW” (with Christian Weber and Michael Thieke ), “Lacy Pool” and in a duo with Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky .
Griener toured various European countries, Turkey, Israel, Morocco and the USA. He teaches jazz and rhythm at the Dresden Music Academy and the Berlin Jazz School .
Prizes and awards
In March 2006 he received the distinction of “most creative soloist” at the New German Jazz Prize in Mannheim.
In November 2008 he was appointed honorary professor by the "Carl Maria von Weber" University of Music in Dresden .
Discography
1993
- Günter Christmann Sometimes crosswise Moers Music 02094
- Proust Vol. 2 Hybrid HMP CD 5
1994
- Griener Schweitzer Sudmann Laarmann Jazz Festival Münster
1997
- Andreas Willers Trio Blue Collar JazzHausMusik JHM 89
1998
- Butch Morris Conducts Berlin Skyscraper '95 with Bernhard Arndt , Elisabeth Böhm-Christl , Johanne Braun , Nicholas Bussmann , David de Bernardi , Axel Dörner, Wolfgang Fuchs , Gregor Hotz , Aleks Kolkowski , Stephan Mathieu , Dietrich Petzold , Kirsten Reese , Albrecht Riermeier , Olaf Rupp , Tatjana Schütz , Marc Stutz-Boukouya FMP CD 92/93
1999
- Andreas Willers Trio Tin Drum Stories between the lines 009
2003
- Paul Brody 's Tango Toy South Klezmer Suite Laika Records 3510170. 2
2004
- Float 7x4x7 creative sources cs 013
- Various No Idea Festival spring garden music 011
2005
- Denzler / Dörner / Müller / Erdmann / Griener Stralau creative sources cs 032
- Willers / Dominique Pifarély / Grange / Griener Montauk between the lines BTLCHR 71208
- Zoran Terzic Trio : I Konnex Records KCD 5139
- Babybonk tells the truth (with Kalle Kalima , Martin Klingeberg , Jan Roder ) Konnex KCD 5147
- Baltschun / Butcher / Christmann / Griener Vario 41 edition explico 14
2007
- Thieke / Griener / Weber The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse Ayler Records aylDL-058
- Carl Ludwig Huebsch 's Primordial Soup (with Axel Dörner, Frank Gratkowski , Carl Ludwig Huebsch) Red Toucan RT9331
- Dietrich Eichmann ensemble the hot days (with Chris Heenan , Christian Weber, Alexander Frangenheim , Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson , Dietrich Eichmann) Leo Records LR 486
- Ulrich Gumpert Quartets (with Ulrich Gumpert, Ben Abarbanel-Wolff , Jan Roder) Intakt Records Intakt CD 127
- "I lift my eyes into the world" - grotesque poems and a prose text by Alfred Lichtenstein , audio book with Barbara Wittmann and Detlef Bierstedt with music by and with Aki Takase and Michael Griener, hoerbuchedition words & music, 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811778 -2-4
2008
- SQUAKK with Jan Roder (bass), Christof Thewes (trombone) JW 046 recorded August 7th, 2008 in NUPHOBIA Studios, Berlin
Web links
- Works by and about Michael Griener in the catalog of the German National Library
- Michael Griener's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Morgenstern: New hall, new man, new luck. In: Dresdner Universitätsjournal , Vol. 15, No. 18, 2008, p. 12 ( online as PDF ; 1.7 MB).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Griener, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz drummer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |